{"product_id":"companion-to-victor-pelevin-9781644697764","title":"Companion to Victor Pelevin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCompanion to Victor Pelevin\u003c\/i\u003e, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. It provides a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, and students, including how best to teach Pelevin to university-level students, and which critical debates invite further investigation. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to the philosophical and aesthetic complexities of Pelevin’s oeuvre in its development from the early post-Soviet years to the second decade of the present millennium. Examining all of Pelevin’s major works and all Peleviniana currently available in English, the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e aims to prompt further inquiry into this author’s intellectually stimulating and socially prescient work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Khagi’s project is intertextual, elucidating both Pelevin’s highly self-referential writing and its relation to Russian literature as a whole. Her holistic approach to Pelevin’s fiction is demonstrated by the extensive footnotes outlining literary theories and politics, and linking to multiple Russian authors, elevating the \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003efrom a sourcebook on ‘Peleviniana’ to a masterclass in post-Soviet literature. … This concern with intertextuality is embedded within each of the eight essays here, allowing Khagi’s \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003eto offer Anglophone readers an invaluable map of the contemporary literary world that Pelevin both creates and critiques.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Sarah Gear, University of Exeter, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e (April 2023: Vol. 118, No. 2)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This companion to Pelevin’s work has two major benefits. It offers some usefully workmanlike analyses of his early texts, with handy plot synopses, some general contextualization and thematically engaging discussions. The \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003ealso offers some introduction to common critical approaches to the writer. The writing is accessible and succinct (if often rather descriptive), and the illustrations a pleasant touch. … [O]verall this is an excellent, balanced and carefully neutral… study that collects everything the Pelevin initiate needs to begin appreciating his work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Sally Dalton-Brown, University of Melbourne, \u003ci\u003eSlavonic and East European Review\u003c\/i\u003e 100, no. 3 (July 2022)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The new collection is thoughtfully crafted for a specific audience, namely US and European nonspecialists looking to teach Pelevin at the university level. The chapters… treat all the author’s major works, particularly those translated into English, but they also draw in less-known compositions and avoid going into the weeds on topics more relevant to Russianists. … In sum, the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e’s scope is simultaneously expansive and tightly focused, and it models effective ways to approach Pelevin in the classroom. … Highly recommended.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— B. J, Nieubuurt, University of Michigan, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e (December 2022: Vol. 60, No. 4)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Companion to Victor Pelevin\u003c\/i\u003e is a collaborative undertaking by current and recent graduate students from American universities and serves scholarly and pedagogical objectives… Some contributions, like Sofya Khagi’s and Alexander McConell’s, are innovative and explore new avenues in research about Pelevin…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e— Clemens Günther, Freie Universität Berlin, \u003ci\u003eZeitschrift für Slavische Philologie\u003c\/i\u003e 78.2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Pelevin: Life, Works, Critical Debates\u003cbr\u003eSofya Khagi, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: The Post-Soviet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Early Years: Post-Soviet with a Capital “S”\u003cbr\u003eMichael Martin, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Space, Time, History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.  Space-Time Poetics in Chapaev and the Void\u003cbr\u003eSofya Khagi, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Parody of Past and Present in Chapaev and the Void\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Fort, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Masking the Void, Voiding the Mask: Viktor Pelevin and the Performance of History\u003cbr\u003eAlexander McConnell, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Simulation and Mind Control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. “The Battle for Your Mind”: Transformation of Western Social Theory in Generation ‘П’\u003cbr\u003eDylan Ogden, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Totalitarian Literature in Generation ‘П’\u003cbr\u003eMeghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: Metamorphosis and Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Transformative Reading for Tailless Monkeys: Metamorphoses in The Sacred Book of the Werewolf\u003cbr\u003eGrace Mahoney, University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The Mythic and the Utopian: Visions of the Future through the Lens of Victor Pelevin’s S.N.U.F.F. and Love for Three Zuckerbrins\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Trotman, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eSelect Publications by Victor Pelevin in Russian and English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359914656087,"sku":"9781644697764","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781644697764.jpg?v=1754126100","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/companion-to-victor-pelevin-9781644697764","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}